What a shite take from the man who has no sense of real-world costs.

He also has no understanding of inflation. Lowing interest rates with rising inflation will, almost certainly, drive up home prices. As there will be more dollars chasing a limited supply. The problem is that this sort thing has a bad habit of going poorly. Investors have just gotten addicted to cheap credit. The US Fed is supposed to be the adult in the room, but The Pedo in Chief is doing his best to undermine that safeguard.

A-fucking-men.
I’m in a similar boat house. We bought in 2011, used a USDA loan and were able to pick our place up for a song ($160k). It now has a “value” of ~$360k. And all that extra “value” is doing for me is increasing taxes and insurance costs. I’m not planning on selling any time soon, so my home “price” going up is a net negative. Sure, we might sell in a decade or so, but today’s price won’t have a major impact on that.

What I’m getting at is, this doesn’t benefit homeowners, it benefits housing investors, who are the group Trump really wants to prop up.

What? You’re telling me the pedophile, racist, Nazi sympathizer, billionare son of a racist, Nazi sympathizer who made the family’s billions by wartime real estate profiteering is more interested in protecting real estate profiteering than helping people? Color me shocked, absolutely shocked, I say. Well, not that shocked.

I ditched cable TV over a decade ago for a simple antenna (and wrote a notable Reddit post on the antenna while I was at it). That was done because I was tired of my wallet being raped each month, because I had to buy a higher bundle to get the channels I wanted. I was stuck with cable internet for a number of years afterwards, as it was the only option in my area. Then T-Mobile offered up 5G based internet in my area at a low price. That was around 6 years ago and I haven’t looked back.

The cable companies sat on their laurels while the world moved on. They are now shocked that their terrible offerings for terrible prices are falling to real competition. Sure, I fully expect the new carriers to do everything in their power to enshitify their service offerings. That’s the nature of business/ But, with the market open to competition, there is now a real opportunity for us customers to shop around and get a less shitty experience. Broadband internet is a commodity and is completely fungible. Prices should be falling and it was only rent seeking rules keeping the prices up.

While it’s not a service I would use, if it helps move the needle away from Windows’ dominance of the gaming market, that’s a good thing. The more people who can ditch Windows, the better. It probably means an Eternal September for Linux. But that is ultimately a good thing. If Linux becomes the default choice for gaming PCs for the mass market, more games will be released with Linux Native versions, driving further Linux adoption. It’s the type of virtuous cycle which is needed to kill the giant that is Windows.

I’d just be happy to see “evil” choices which weren’t cartoonishly silly. So many of these game end up offering you choices like:

• Kiss the baby, donate all your money to an orphanage.
• Kill the baby, cook and eat it. in front of the mother.

There’s never anything like:

• Kiss the baby, take over the orphanage, run an outward front which looks like a fantastic charitable organization while training the orphans to commit crimes for you.

Really well done “evil” should be loved by the people, seem outwardly good while using that as cover to do selfish things. But that is much harder than “Press X to murder an innocent for no reason”.

Rather than interact with a machine, you’ll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.

So, basically the computers from Star Trek: TNG. I’d go for that, but unfortunately, what we’ll get instead is enshitified AI slop which exists to suck a subscription fee out of you every month while pushing ads.

They are chopping the development teams and titles up into convenient bite-sized chunks. Ubisoft will hang onto the large titles in the Vantage Studios vertical, and the rest will be spun off or sold off. Any spun off studios will be saddled with crippling debt.

Eating their own dog food slop.

This is fun as a parent. Turn on a movie I remember watching as a kid, only to realize my memories were of the version sanitized for network television.

It tends to be much more focused on bringing products to market, but of course they do. The transistor, the base unit of all of the microchips which make this conversation possible, came out of Bell Labs. And, as much as we might hate them for it, you have companies like Monsanto doing a lot of work on chemical engineering and genetics. Much of the work on AI (for good or slop) is being done in private sector labs now. Aeronautics research happens heavily in companies like Boeing and Airbus, though they are often working hand in hand with government labs (e.g. NASA, JPL, EASA).

Where Universities and Government really shine are areas like basic research and research which doesn’t have obvious commercial applications. Which is why support for those organizations is so critical. Those areas of research often have long term effects and can result in entirely new areas of knowledge, research and products.

It’s easy to think of large corporations as soulless organizations hell bent of accumulating wealth at the cost of anything else, because they are. But they are also surprisingly good at focusing wealth and effort to find new ways to do things cheaper, faster and more efficiently. Specifically because those things make money. Veritasium had a video on a good example of this recently.

So, the layoffs didn’t cause the change to smaller expansions. The change to smaller expansions made the layoffs easier.

I think that depends on how big their role is in something. If an actor is just reading a monologue or a few lines as part of narration, it’s probably not worth the time. For a major role which will interact with the world and lore, I’d agree that some background work would be useful to understand who the character is and what their place in the world is. Though, at some level, people are people regardless of their specific situations. If you understand (or build) their motivations in a reasonable way, then their actions and reactions can be understood by them reacting to the world around them in expected ways. Sure, some larger than life people might react in very specific ways, and a different upbringing or training can shape how one reacts, but it’s still going to be about understanding that character’s motivations.

“I’m not a gamer,” Perlman says in the interview. “I wouldn’t know how to put a game—I wouldn’t know which game goes into which piece of hardware. I’ve never played any of the games. The whole Fallout thing is a mystery to me.”

Ya, not everyone is going to be into video games. For someone who just does some voice work, that seems pretty reasonable.

Right, but have you considered that no one actually cares about Greece?

This is it exactly. I made a hard cut with Reddit, but I’ll admit to missing the sysadmin subreddit. The place was full of very smart, helpful people and also cranky. The PowerShell subreddit was another great resource. I haven’t been willing to go back, but those sorts of communities only exist when you hit a certain mass of people on a platform.

Oh good. Give him a gun, strap a parachute to him, and kick him out of a C-130 flying over Tehran at 30,000 ft. He can go take all the action he wants from there. Otherwise, let’s not go get a bunch of young men and women killed in yet another foreign military adventure.

I’m curious about helium leakage from the envelope and how that will be managed. I can understand why they chose helium to lift it, but it is notoriously hard to contain. If this scales up, they are going to need a constant source to replenish losses.

I mean, no shit? Part of the Snowden leaks was information that the NSA had intercepted Cisco routers and backdoored them before they were shipped on to international customers. So, even without willing actions by US vendors, there is that to worry about. And the idea that a private company would install a backdoor for US Spy agencies in their infrastructure isn’t new. The fact that any Chinese company is using US hardware/software just seems incredibly stupid. And no one should be using CheckPoint.

It’s the same reason Huiwei was thrown out of US infrastructure. You cannot build trusted architecture with hardware/software from a nation which you know wants to hack you. I work for a US based company in cybersecurity, we treat WeChat as Chinese State spyware, because it is. We wouldn’t consider a router or firewall from a Chinese based company and we treat any software from China with outright suspicion. Sure that all sucks and we may be missing out on some great stuff which isn’t malicious. But, the risks far outweigh the costs. I’d expect my Chinese counterparts to be making the exact same risk calculation for US based tech.

That makes sense. The cloud runs Linux. Even Microsoft runs Linux in the cloud. With more high value assets moving to the cloud, and usually to Linux, the attackers are going to follow.

It was a remix of Axel F. Though, with the millions of knock off versions which were spawned at the time, you probably heard one of those. The Official Video has vocals.